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Today is the birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the great Indian mathematician who studied number theory, mastered modular and partition functions, and designed summation formulas. Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887 in Erode, a city along the banks of the Cauvery River in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. He enrolled in a local high at the age of 10, but learned more about mathematics from the college students who boarded in parents' home. According to Robert Kanigel, Ramanujan's biographer and author of The Man Who Knew Infinity, the young mathematician was deeply influenced by two borrowed books: S.L. Loney's Plane Trigonometry and George Shoobridge Carr's Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics. Carr's work, a list of 5000 mathematical formulas, inspired Ramanujan to develop his own proofs for these theorems. By the age of 17, Ramanujan had calculated Euler's constant to 15 decimal places and proposed a new class of numbers. Although his pee...

Ignited Minds of Mathematics (IMM), a voluntary group of Mathematics teachers , has organized its second conclave, supported by International Council for school leadership (ICSL) , in Modern School Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. The theme of the conclave was “ From rote learning to thinking Mathematically”. Chief guest of the conclave was Dr. Vijay Datta, Principal Modern School Barakhamba Road. It was attended by about 140 Mathematics associates who have come on their own to be the part of this conclave. There were presentations and panel discussions by eminent Mathematicians, Principals and Mathematics enthusiasts. The group has launched a platform” Ignited Minds Foundation Olympiads” to boost the thinking process and to search and support the talented and deserving students by organizing Olympiads across the country and contributing the right kind of questions which are apt for the the cause “ thinking mathematically”. Dr. Sanjeev Verma and Mr. Amit Bajaj, ...

  

   

  

   

  

  

  

   

   

Dear All, Pi Day is held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14) ,due to π being approximmately equal to 3.14. Pi Minute is also sometimes celebrated on March 14 at 1:59 p.m. If π is truncated to seven decimal places, it becomes 3.1415926, making March 14 at 1:59:26 p.m., Pi Second (or sometimes March 14, 1592 at 6:53:58 a.m.). The Pi Day celebration includes public marching, consuming fruit pies and playing pi games... The founder of Pi Day was Larry Shaw, a now retired physicist at the Exploratorium who still helps out with the celebrations. Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, Pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits. HAPPY PI DAY :)

Dear all, Please watch free online videos for classes XI and XII mathematics including questions of NCERT, REFERENCE BOOKS, HOTS, VALUE BASED and TEN YEARS BOARD QUESTIONS by my friend SARVJEET ARORA. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ohUuLBae-gt_lmn8jGqPQ

Largest Prime Number M77232917 discovered on January 4 , 2018 A FedEx employee Jonathan Pace ,an engineer by profession has discovered the largest prime Number. According to GIMPS’s (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) website, the newly discovered prime number is calculated by raising 2 to the 77,232,917th power and subtracting 1. M77232917 itself is reportedly 23 million digits long. According to New Scientist, it is one million digits longer than its predecessor, which clocked in at 22 million digits. The greatest prime number discovered before M77232917 was found in 2015, and was 5 million digits longer than the one that came before it in 2013.  Although Euclid proved that if 2^P-1 is prime, then 2^P-1*(2^P-1) is a perfect number in 350 BC, the French monk Marin Mersenne was honored with the name for his conjecture of which prime numbers could be used for P to produce larger primes. Although written in the early 17th Century, the conjecture took 300 ye...